But there's nothing that says those systems have to remain in place. If you're that paranoid about it, you can fix that in your garage: it's not terribly hard to remove, remount, and re-balance a tire, and the sensors are just stuck to the inside of the wheel with some 3M double-stick tape.
Proper vehicle maintenance avoids #1 and #4 entirely. #2 - ignore them and continue about your business. You have no obligation to speak with them. #3 - you should have turned off when you saw them turning everyone else away, or when you saw that they had the road blocked.
There's no reason to invite unnecessary contact with anyone wearing a badge. Unless you like being detained and having your vehicle and/or person searched.
I'll admit I'm very biased against police -- I've spent far too long in areas with small-town police departments where corruption is the norm. But as a result, I don't give a damn if the two guys in ski masks just robbed my bank's local branch while I was in the parking lot, I'm not saying a damned thing to the police.
Maybe things are better in larger cities, but having seen the news, I doubt it.
Unless it's a friendly interrogation (hey did you ever see that guy in Dorm A who went missing last month?) keep your yapper shut and let your lawyer do the talking.
There's no such thing as a friendly interrogation. Always, always, always keep your yap shut and let the lawyer talk. It's sad, but that's the USA of today.
I had it right the first time -- I don't think that game used more than 16 at a time, even though the Amiga was capable of more, and the Amiga version looked far better than the C64 version.
For that matter, the PC version was capable of more as well, and actually would run in a 16 color mode as well if you had a suitable graphics board, but my old 8088 did not.
Red Storm Rising...the same game that I could start playing on a Friday night and not realize that it was Sunday afternoon? The game where if played in real time could take hours to complete one encounter? The one where you hoped you guessed right what the tiny low-res "waterfall" was trying to tell you, and generally paid dearly if you didn't? Where you confused your family by staring at a few squares trailing dots for hours while trying to figure out where to put that last MK48 before you had to head back, and they couldn't understand what was so intriguing? That RSR?
I had the PC version with 4 color graphics (assuming you counted white and black as two of the colors). How I lusted after the Amiga version with their 16 colors.
Thanks for the reminder that I still have that old 8088 sitting in a corner, and the game, complete with original box, manual, map, and keyboard template, is sitting on top of it. Maybe I should kill another weekend.
I'm not whining, I just find it amusing that Sony is exhibiting their typical behavior and beginning the process to shoot themselves in the foot. Again.
I'm in the camp of opinion that DVDs are good enough for almost all of the garbage being pushed out of hollywood, and that optical media in general has a limited future at best as other technologies outpace it.
The problem I see with that solution: What about the issues where you can find facts to support multiple, differing conclusions on the same issue? Then you have courts deciding science, and given how badly courts handle pretty much everything, I don't see how that could end any way except badly.
And since libel and slander are usually civil procedures, not criminal, you also introduce the ability for those with deeper pockets to bully others (RIAA & MPAA vs college students, for example).
Though I do like the idea of Murdoch and his minions having to fund organizations like the ACLU and EFF...
The sad part is that by giving up on communication -- on the part of all sides of the various issues -- we're left with little except name calling (see palin, kos, etc), and that doesn't really help things at all.
As far as the tea party goes - I'd actually like to see them become a viable political party. Not because I agree with much of their platform, but because once the two-party system is broken, it becomes a little easier for other parties to become viable as well. And partly (ok, fairly large part) because I think it'd be amusing to watch the resulting wailing and gnashing of teeth that would result.
Politics have never been all peaches and roses, and the last 12 years or so kicked off pretty bad and went downhill, with no signs of any positive change. But now that same divisiveness is sticking its ugly head into the sciences and turning everything into a goddamed red v blue political football.
Somewhat off-topic...there are times I think the internet really is a bad idea since it makes 'groupthink' much stronger and much more prevalent than it'd otherwise be.
I live in redneckland. It sucks at times and is great at others. But maybe I can give you some insight as a result.
1) Often, "intelligently and prudently" comes across as very condescending, and that doesn't sit well with most people, regardless of their intelligence or social status.
2) People around here have a very high distrust of anyone that doesn't believe the same as them. Yes, that means religion, and their belief that anyone who isn't their particular variety of christian is automatically "wrong" in some manner. Add to that the fact that most people haven't ever lived far from where they grew up, and a distrust of most "big city folk", and a paranoia of those from either the east or west coasts.
3) Most of the things you mention aren't an issue around here, so there's also a big case of "out of sight out of mind". Fishing? That's a way to spend the afternoon drinking beer; not a way of life (though some of the bass fishermen would call those fightin' words). Aquifer depletion? Not a huge deal here (yet). Oil? Again, not produced here, and no one will care until it all goes away.
4) Things that work in the more densely populated area simply won't work here. Small commuter cars are great in cities and suburbs. A better system of public transit and light rail would be completely awesome to have. But they really don't work out in the rural areas. So various proposals that have been made regarding high taxes on gas, or on "gas guzzlers" (specifically light trucks), are seen as directly and unfairly targeting them.
5) Incomes out here are very low compared to the coasts. So while people in Boston or LA may not think much of something that might cost an extra $1000 / year per family, people out here often cannot afford it. When a family of 4 are barely getting by on an income under $30k before taxes are taken out, ANY increase is difficult. Being told "it's worth it" by someone out east making 6 figures, with no kids, and a wife/husband/partner who ALSO makes a nearly 6 figure salary, doesn't go over very well.
6) Lastly, when they try to make any of these points, they're often dismissed with little thought because they often don't come across as terribly educated. So when they find anyone willing to listen, they can be fiercely loyal.
I'm not saying any of these make people around here right (indeed, I often disagree with them on just about everything), just trying to explain part of what's going on.
Doing something that you like doesn't mean they care about you, and I've never implied that they did. They do things that make sense to them -- I've never implied otherwise. You like some of them, you don't like others. But you can't honestly make a blanket statement that they never do anything that customers like.
Which again has absolutely fuck-all to do with the question. When was the last time a company did something you like? I'd say it's more often than you'd like to admit, because it's not popular here to admit companies sometimes do things that benefit them that you like.
That computer you're using -- it was made by someone, right? Ok, maybe you assembled it yourself. But someone else made the components. And those people were working for a company.
If you don't live in the area, the city, county, and state have no reason to listen to you.
However, the folks at the various chambers of commerce do tend to listen to those who will not be spending money there, especially if you can tell them exactly why, and point them to specific events.
You may not convince the legislatures to listen to you, but sometimes it can be enough to convince someone with a bigger voice to speak on your behalf.
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But there's nothing that says those systems have to remain in place. If you're that paranoid about it, you can fix that in your garage: it's not terribly hard to remove, remount, and re-balance a tire, and the sensors are just stuck to the inside of the wheel with some 3M double-stick tape.
Proper vehicle maintenance avoids #1 and #4 entirely.
#2 - ignore them and continue about your business. You have no obligation to speak with them.
#3 - you should have turned off when you saw them turning everyone else away, or when you saw that they had the road blocked.
There's no reason to invite unnecessary contact with anyone wearing a badge. Unless you like being detained and having your vehicle and/or person searched.
I'll admit I'm very biased against police -- I've spent far too long in areas with small-town police departments where corruption is the norm. But as a result, I don't give a damn if the two guys in ski masks just robbed my bank's local branch while I was in the parking lot, I'm not saying a damned thing to the police.
Maybe things are better in larger cities, but having seen the news, I doubt it.
Unless it's a friendly interrogation (hey did you ever see that guy in Dorm A who went missing last month?) keep your yapper shut and let your lawyer do the talking.
There's no such thing as a friendly interrogation. Always, always, always keep your yap shut and let the lawyer talk. It's sad, but that's the USA of today.
as long as I control it."
Very close, actually.
I had it right the first time -- I don't think that game used more than 16 at a time, even though the Amiga was capable of more, and the Amiga version looked far better than the C64 version.
For that matter, the PC version was capable of more as well, and actually would run in a 16 color mode as well if you had a suitable graphics board, but my old 8088 did not.
http://www.mobygames.com/game/red-storm-rising I'm sure you can probably locate the actual game with a little bit of searching, or there's a few up on amazon.
Red Storm Rising...the same game that I could start playing on a Friday night and not realize that it was Sunday afternoon? The game where if played in real time could take hours to complete one encounter? The one where you hoped you guessed right what the tiny low-res "waterfall" was trying to tell you, and generally paid dearly if you didn't? Where you confused your family by staring at a few squares trailing dots for hours while trying to figure out where to put that last MK48 before you had to head back, and they couldn't understand what was so intriguing? That RSR?
I had the PC version with 4 color graphics (assuming you counted white and black as two of the colors). How I lusted after the Amiga version with their 16 colors.
Thanks for the reminder that I still have that old 8088 sitting in a corner, and the game, complete with original box, manual, map, and keyboard template, is sitting on top of it. Maybe I should kill another weekend.
I'm not whining, I just find it amusing that Sony is exhibiting their typical behavior and beginning the process to shoot themselves in the foot. Again.
I'm in the camp of opinion that DVDs are good enough for almost all of the garbage being pushed out of hollywood, and that optical media in general has a limited future at best as other technologies outpace it.
People haven't even moved from DVDs to Blu-Ray yet, judging by the amount of shelf space still given to DVDs.
Is Sony TRYING to kill off blu-ray?
In all fairness, there isn't a pot of gold at the end of the tunnel, because it's at the end of the rainbow.
Yet, given the chance, I'd take a ride without a second thought.
Perhaps where you're at. That isn't the case where I'm at however.
Don't know where you're at, but we can now get DSL without paying for phone service, and cable internet without cable tv.
They can choose to participate or not. Seems like a non-story to me.
The problem I see with that solution: What about the issues where you can find facts to support multiple, differing conclusions on the same issue? Then you have courts deciding science, and given how badly courts handle pretty much everything, I don't see how that could end any way except badly.
And since libel and slander are usually civil procedures, not criminal, you also introduce the ability for those with deeper pockets to bully others (RIAA & MPAA vs college students, for example).
Though I do like the idea of Murdoch and his minions having to fund organizations like the ACLU and EFF...
That's the attraction. It's crude humor to be sure, but it's sure be entertaining.
30 mph = ~13 m/s
I'll take the faster one, even if it is expressed in silly units.
The sad part is that by giving up on communication -- on the part of all sides of the various issues -- we're left with little except name calling (see palin, kos, etc), and that doesn't really help things at all.
As far as the tea party goes - I'd actually like to see them become a viable political party. Not because I agree with much of their platform, but because once the two-party system is broken, it becomes a little easier for other parties to become viable as well. And partly (ok, fairly large part) because I think it'd be amusing to watch the resulting wailing and gnashing of teeth that would result.
Politics have never been all peaches and roses, and the last 12 years or so kicked off pretty bad and went downhill, with no signs of any positive change. But now that same divisiveness is sticking its ugly head into the sciences and turning everything into a goddamed red v blue political football.
Somewhat off-topic...there are times I think the internet really is a bad idea since it makes 'groupthink' much stronger and much more prevalent than it'd otherwise be.
why is that?
I live in redneckland. It sucks at times and is great at others. But maybe I can give you some insight as a result.
1) Often, "intelligently and prudently" comes across as very condescending, and that doesn't sit well with most people, regardless of their intelligence or social status.
2) People around here have a very high distrust of anyone that doesn't believe the same as them. Yes, that means religion, and their belief that anyone who isn't their particular variety of christian is automatically "wrong" in some manner. Add to that the fact that most people haven't ever lived far from where they grew up, and a distrust of most "big city folk", and a paranoia of those from either the east or west coasts.
3) Most of the things you mention aren't an issue around here, so there's also a big case of "out of sight out of mind". Fishing? That's a way to spend the afternoon drinking beer; not a way of life (though some of the bass fishermen would call those fightin' words). Aquifer depletion? Not a huge deal here (yet). Oil? Again, not produced here, and no one will care until it all goes away.
4) Things that work in the more densely populated area simply won't work here. Small commuter cars are great in cities and suburbs. A better system of public transit and light rail would be completely awesome to have. But they really don't work out in the rural areas. So various proposals that have been made regarding high taxes on gas, or on "gas guzzlers" (specifically light trucks), are seen as directly and unfairly targeting them.
5) Incomes out here are very low compared to the coasts. So while people in Boston or LA may not think much of something that might cost an extra $1000 / year per family, people out here often cannot afford it. When a family of 4 are barely getting by on an income under $30k before taxes are taken out, ANY increase is difficult. Being told "it's worth it" by someone out east making 6 figures, with no kids, and a wife/husband/partner who ALSO makes a nearly 6 figure salary, doesn't go over very well.
6) Lastly, when they try to make any of these points, they're often dismissed with little thought because they often don't come across as terribly educated. So when they find anyone willing to listen, they can be fiercely loyal.
I'm not saying any of these make people around here right (indeed, I often disagree with them on just about everything), just trying to explain part of what's going on.
Doing something that you like doesn't mean they care about you, and I've never implied that they did. They do things that make sense to them -- I've never implied otherwise. You like some of them, you don't like others. But you can't honestly make a blanket statement that they never do anything that customers like.
Which again has absolutely fuck-all to do with the question. When was the last time a company did something you like? I'd say it's more often than you'd like to admit, because it's not popular here to admit companies sometimes do things that benefit them that you like.
But the question was when they ever did anything you LIKE.
Sure, it generated profit for them. But you apparently LIKE some of the things companies make.
That computer you're using -- it was made by someone, right? Ok, maybe you assembled it yourself. But someone else made the components. And those people were working for a company.
Or even simpler: You like your paycheck, right?
If you don't live in the area, the city, county, and state have no reason to listen to you.
However, the folks at the various chambers of commerce do tend to listen to those who will not be spending money there, especially if you can tell them exactly why, and point them to specific events.
For instance: The Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce
http://miamichamber.com/toplinks/Contact_Us.aspx
You may not convince the legislatures to listen to you, but sometimes it can be enough to convince someone with a bigger voice to speak on your behalf.